[OSM-talk] Half-mapping

[Andy Robinson]

Richard Fairhurst wrote:
>Sent: 19 June 2007 9:59 AM
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: [OSM-talk] Half-mapping
>
>Hello all,
>
>Apologies in advance for the following whinge.
>
>Could I ask people to think very, very carefully before half-mapping
>places they've never been and have no knowledge of?
>
>In particular, I'm talking about tracing segments from others' GPX
>tracks. Quite often I take a track for a particular area, and come
>back a while later to map it, only to see that someone has traced
>segments along the line.
>
>This would be super helpful except that:
>
>- The user has done this with no knowledge of the roads. So
>T-junctions have been plotted as corners, and vice versa.
>- The quality of drawing is way lower than that which I'd consider
>acceptable. Curves where I'd drop eight points have been done with one
>segment alone. It can be more work to correct these than it would be
>to draw them from fresh.
>- Unwayed segments! Gah!

I have to admit that sometimes when faced with the same dilemma I simply
check that there is no useful information attached to the section of
nodes/segments and then simply delete the lot and recreate them properly and
the final way.

>
>I'm loth to criticise anyone's efforts for OSM - but there are perhaps
>more helpful things to do.
>
>cheers
>Richard
>

Cheers
Andy